'Citizens' in the Bible
and you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the citizens of Jericho, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, fought against you, and I gave them into your hand.
And then you shall allocate it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens dwelling as aliens in the midst of you who have children in the midst of you, and [so] they shall be to you [just] like full citizens among the {Israelites}. With you they shall be allotted with an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.
But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to be king over us!'
But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public without due process--men who are Roman citizens--[and] threw [us] into prison, and now they are wanting to release us secretly? Certainly not! Rather let them come themselves [and] bring us out!"
So the police officers reported these words to the chief magistrates, and they were afraid [when they] heard that they were Roman citizens.